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About DDDB
Our coalition consists of 21 community organizations and
there are 51 community organizations formally
aligned in opposition to the Ratner plan.

DDDB is a volunteer-run organization. We have over 5,000
subscribers to our email newsletter, and 7,000 petition
signers. Over 800 volunteers have registered with DDDB
to form our various teams, task-forces and committees
and we have over 150 block captains. We have a 20 person
volunteer legal team of local lawyers supplementing our
retained attorneys.

We are funded entirely by individual donations from the community at large
and through various fundraising events we and supporters have organized.

Kidd of Queens?Recently the NJ Nets signed a lease extention at the Meadowlands through 2013. If one remembers one's "Atlantic Yards" history, Forest City Ratner was to have the Nets playing in their (Insert Corporate Sponsor Name) Arena in Brooklyn for the 2006-07 season. Which is right about...now (well, almost, Halloween starts the season).

It's no secret that Nets owner Bruce Ratner has a jones for Brooklyn, but the recent lease extension that could keep the team at the Meadowlands through the 2012-13 season also allows the Nets to move to Queens without paying a penalty.

"We are currently in the public approval process for Atlantic Yards and as we have repeatedly said our plan is to move the Nets to Brooklyn in time for the '09-10 season," Nets CEO Brett Yormark said in a statement released by the team.

Of course, NYC2012 said the same thing about the West Side Stadium right before it unveiled plans for a Queens Olympic stadium, and Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn spokesman Daniel Goldstein speculates that Ratner is making contingency plans in case his controversial $4.2 billion Atlantic Yards project eventually meets the same fate as the Jets' proposed field. One possible location might be the Sunnyside railyard - City Councilman Eric Gioia has long advocated development over the MTA's railyard. Another future home for the Nets, New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority spokesman Bernard Spigner says, could be . . . New Jersey. "We've told the Nets umpteen times if things don't work out, you're always welcome here," Spigner says.